Relay cropping

Implementation

Long term

Sustainability components

  • GHG emissions
  • Air quality
  • Soil
  • Water
  • Biodiversity
  • Animal welfare
  • Economic
  • Social
  • Technical feasibility

Climate risk region

Atlantic
Atlantic

Weather event addressed

Floods / Heavy rainfall
Very high temperatures / Heat wave
Intense frost / Late frost
Wind / storms

Farming system

CEREAL CROPS
Arable crops

Description of the measure

Relay cropping

Comments on sustainability

Relay-cropping consists of producing and harvesting, on a given plot, two crops in the same year. The specificity is that sowing of the second crop will be done before the harvest of the first crop.